{"id":131175,"date":"2024-09-13T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131175"},"modified":"2024-09-13T06:42:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T10:42:45","slug":"cyprian-what-matters-of-deep-moment-are-contained-in-the-lords-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131175","title":{"rendered":"Cyprian–‘\u00a0what matters of deep moment\u00a0are contained in the Lord\u2019s prayer!’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

But what matters of deep moment are contained in the Lord\u2019s prayer! How many and how great, briefly collected in the words, but spiritually abundant in virtue! so that there is absolutely nothing passed over that is not comprehended in these our prayers and petitions, as in a compendium of heavenly doctrine. \u201cAfter this manner,\u201d says He, \u201cpray ye: Our Father, which art in heaven.\u201d The new man, born again and restored to his God by His grace, says \u201cFather,\u201d in the first place because he has now begun to be a son. \u201cHe came,\u201d He says, \u201cto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe in His name.” The man, therefore, who has believed in His name, and has become God\u2019s son, ought from this point to begin both to give thanks and to profess himself God\u2019s son, by declaring that God is his Father in heaven; and also to bear witness, among the very first words of his new birth, that he has renounced an earthly and carnal father, and that he has begun to know as well as to have as a father Him only who is in heaven, as it is written: \u201cThey who say unto their father and their mother, I have not known thee, and who have not acknowledged their own children; these have observed Thy precepts and have kept Thy covenant.\u201d  Also the Lord in His Gospel has bidden us to call \u201cno man our father upon earth, because there is to us one Father, who is in heaven.\u201d And to the disciple who had made mention of his dead father, He replied, \u201cLet the dead bury their dead;\u201d for he had said that his father was dead, while the Father of believers is living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor ought we, beloved brethren, only to observe and understand that we should call Him Father<\/em> who is in heaven; but we add to it, and say our<\/em> Father, that is, the Father of those who believe\u2014of those who, being sanctified by Him, and restored by the nativity of spiritual grace, have begun to be sons of God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

–Cyprian of Carthage, Treatise IV On the Lord\u2019s Prayer, 9-10a<\/p>

\u201cThanks be to God.\u201d

Saint Cyprian of Carthage, immediately after hearing the ruling of Galerius Maximus sentencing him to death for his refusal to renounce Christ in favor of pagan deities.

Saint Cyprian of Carthage.

Ora Pro Nobis#CatholicTwitter<\/a> #CatholicX<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/v0A9TNeDwB<\/a><\/p>— Brian Burgess (@Burgess7281975) August 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>